From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Mar 26 17:51:32 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BBC537B405 for ; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:51:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from blossom.cjclark.org ([12.234.91.48]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020327015125.VASJ1147.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@blossom.cjclark.org>; Wed, 27 Mar 2002 01:51:25 +0000 Received: (from cjc@localhost) by blossom.cjclark.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2R1pKG91468; Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:51:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from cjc) Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 17:51:19 -0800 From: "Crist J. Clark" To: Michael Hostbaek Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newsyslog.conf - sudden error Message-ID: <20020326175119.I89885@blossom.cjclark.org> References: <20020325102339.GC529@mich.itxmarket.com> <20020325161817.C84226@blossom.cjclark.org> <20020326092656.GA515@mich.itxmarket.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020326092656.GA515@mich.itxmarket.com>; from mich@freebsdcluster.org on Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:26:56AM +0100 X-URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 10:26:56AM +0100, Michael Hostbaek wrote: > Crist J. Clark (cjc) writes: > > That error message means it's having trouble reading the "$W0D2." But > > I believe that is valid syntax. I can't see any recent changes to > > newsyslog(8) that might be making problems. > > > > Is there something special about that time? There wasn't some kind of > > DST-Standard time switch in the local timezone, was there (kind of > > early in the year for that)? > > Well, the one box that do work (4.4-STABLE) is located in the UK (hence > another timezone -1) - whereas the other boxes are located in Italy and > France. Could that be the problem ? Looking for a reason mktime(3) may have failed. That's the only reason you would get that error other than the syntax being no good. -- Crist J. Clark | cjclark@alum.mit.edu | cjclark@jhu.edu http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | cjc@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message